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🇨🇦 current reading interests: marxist theory, interwar lit, classics, works in translations. reading in english, french, chinese.

Currently reading (7)
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
Awu's Story: A Novel by Justine Mintsa
How to Listen to and Understand Opera by Robert Greenberg
The Iliad by Homer

Mainly reads fiction books that are reflective, adventurous, and dark.

Typically chooses medium-paced books that are <300 pages long.

Read recently
Hang On St. Christopher by Adrian McKinty
The History of Bourbon by Ken Albala
Classics of Horror: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by James Krasner, James Krasner
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of "Moby-Dick" by Richard J. King

To-Read Pile
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Sappho
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now by James L. Kugel

Challenges

2025 Reading Goal

40 books

40% (16 books)